History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . JOHN CALVIN, HIS CHURCH AND PULPIT. reared a statue in honor of Servetus, with regret expressedthat Calvin, in following the ideas of the age, had consentedto the death of the Spaniard who differed in theologicalopinions. Even in our severest judgments of Calvin, wemust remember that the Servetus episode took place whenthe Republic of the City of Geneva was in the midst of alife and death struggle against both Libertines (that group ofsixteenth century fanatics) and the hostile Italians. In the com
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . JOHN CALVIN, HIS CHURCH AND PULPIT. reared a statue in honor of Servetus, with regret expressedthat Calvin, in following the ideas of the age, had consentedto the death of the Spaniard who differed in theologicalopinions. Even in our severest judgments of Calvin, wemust remember that the Servetus episode took place whenthe Republic of the City of Geneva was in the midst of alife and death struggle against both Libertines (that group ofsixteenth century fanatics) and the hostile Italians. In the comparatively short life of Savonarola from 1452to 1498,—the latter the date of his execution by strangling,—every waking hour was a busy one. Not until four yearsbefore his death, did Savonarola incur in marked degreethe enmity of Rome. Refusing the bribe of a cardinalshat, the reformed monk advocated a semi-religious freedomas a starting-point to crash through bars set up by papalauthority and in this act met death half way. 68 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS.
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